Microsoft Workers Protest Cuts As Company Makes $4 Billion Quarterly Profit

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/10617

Microsoft contract workers who are watching the company slash their pay aren’t taking the decision lying down. On Monday workers gathered near the company’s Redmond, Washington campus to protest the decision to make the cuts at the same time the company was posting $4 billion in profits during the fourth quarter of 2008. Last week the software giant announced it would be slashing pay by 10 percent for contract labor. Microsoft plans to cut 2000-3000 jobs in the coming months.

[Deja Q]

1. And how many of those will be H1Bs?

They say they have no moral imperative, yet take corporate welfare/government subsidy, and keep coming up with new excuses to fire QUALIFIED Americans; excuses having no linear nor lateral logic to them. Just empty excuses. Their greed is beyond sickening at this point.

Linux for me.

Hell, as much as I loathe Apple I'd rather get one of them, even though it's greener to get OS X licensed and use it on my hardware than chuck it all out the window for one of their overpriced boxes. Still, if anyone on Apple's board is environmentally friendly they'd have reversed their licensing policies by now too. :shrug: (more power to Psystar, I might buy one of theirs...)